loves gulf as much as president obama does did when he had men and women fighting in iraq and afghanistan. he stopped playing golf altogether. he might have hit balls at camp david. but we never saw that. he was never seen to do that. this president has not felt politically constrained to may behave in the same way -- >> why hasn't he? >> well, look... this president has been... let me put it this way -- he does not suffer from self-esteem problems or a lack of confidence in his own political abilities. and look at the evidence! the way it must look to him and to many of those around him, he is politically butt froof. he comes along with the worst economy anybody's tried to get re-elected with in a long time and he pull its off. there is a sense in washington right after the election that -- that the republicans were utterly in disarray and that he was ascendant and he was going to have his way with congress